Image Processing and Mathematical Morphology (Hardcover)

Introduction to Mathematical Morphology

Basic Concept in Digital Image Processing

Brief History of Mathematical Morphology

Essential Morphological Approach to Image Analysis

Scope of This Book

Binary Morphology

Set Operations on Binary Images

Logical Operations on Binary Images

Binary Dilation

Binary Erosion

Opening and Closing

Hit-or-Miss Transformation

Grayscale Morphology

Grayscale Dilation and Erosion

Grayscale Dilation Erosion Duality Theorem

Grayscale Opening and Closing

Basic Morphological Algorithms

Boundary Extraction

Region Filling

Extraction of Connected Components

Convex Hull

Thinning

Thickening

Skeletonization

Pruning

Morphological Edge Operator

Basic Morphological Filters

Alternating Sequential Filters

Recursive Morphological Filters

Soft Morphological Filters

OSSM Filters

RSM Filters (RSMFs)

ROSSM Filters

Regulated Morphological Filters

Fuzzy Morphological Filters

Distance Transformation

DT by Iterative Operations

DT by Mathematical Morphology

Approximation of Euclidean Distances

Decomposition of Distance SEs

Iterative Erosion Algorithm

Two Scan?Based Algorithm

Three-Dimensional Euclidean Distance

Acquiring Approaches

Deriving Approaches

7 Feature Extraction

Edge Linking by MM

Corner Detection by Regulated Morphology

Shape Database with Hierarchical Features

Corner and Circle Detection

Size Histogram

Object Representation

Object Representation and Tolerances

Skeletonization or MA Transformation

Morphological Shape Description

Decomposition of Morphological Structuring Elements

Decomposition of Geometric-Shaped SEs

Decomposition of Binary SEs

Decomposition of Grayscale SEs

Architectures for Mathematical Morphology

Threshold Decomposition of Grayscale Morphology into Binary Morphology

Implementing Morphological Operations Using Programmable Neural Networks

MLP as Processing Modules

A Systolic Array Architecture

Implementation on Multicomputers

General Sweep Mathematical Morphology

Theoretical Development of General Sweep MM

Blending of Sweep Surfaces with Deformations

Image Enhancement

Edge Linking

Geometric Modeling and Sweep MM

Formal Language and Sweep Morphology

Grammars

Parsing Algorithms

Morphological Approach to Shortest Path Planning

Relationships between Shortest Path Finding and MM

Rotational MM

The Shortest Path-Finding Algorithm

Experimental Results and Discussions

Dynamic Rotational MM

The Rule of Distance Functions in Shortest Path Planning

Index